[Hopperxx] RIP Director - January 27th, 2017

[Jim Andrews]

How do you find working with Adobe Animate, Colin? What are the main 
advantages over hand-coding? Main disadvantages? What does it obviously 
need that it doesn't have? How does it compare with the old Flash IDE? 
How easy is it to go with the flowchart vs the timeline?

ja


On 2/17/2017 7:29 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
> Although I did do a lot of Director and Shockwave work, almost all of 
> what I have done in the last 17 years has been in Flash Pro (now 
> called Adobe Animate). That includes all of the mobile apps I’ve 
> worked on, and all of the HTML5 work I have done.
>
> Many people are looking to Hype and other tools because they either 
> always hated Flash, or now hate Adobe. I’m sure the same people will 
> still be using Photoshop and Illustrator, or even have CC 
> subscriptions, so it’s a weak argument.
>
> So, if you do need to do Flash or Shockwave like things for clients as 
> HTML5 activities, you shouldn't rule out Adobe Animate because of 
> previous bias.
>